The Vanilla Milkshakes

Vocals / Guitar: David McGhee Drums / Vocals: Frank Registrato Guitar / Vocals: JanKarl Hayes Bass / Vocals: Jeff Brink Mike King - Bass / Vocals "Like Nirvana if they had been a K Records band" - Everett True The band just finished a new album with Jack Endino (of Nirvana's Bleach and most of Incesticide, also Mudhoney and Soundgarden's first album) with one of Colorado's best bassists (according to The Westword) last October, it should be out this March or so. Trust us, the songs are mind blowing! We were being distributed by K Records but they downsized. But where our page is on their site is a link to our Bandcamp site. We're also on every digital platform! Or at least we should be... Physical CD's can be bought at http://thevanillmilkshakes.bandcamp.com Great news! Yr Scene made the physical CD edition of Rock Against Trump! Buy a copy here: https://majorletdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rock-against-trump Amazing Misery is also the closing track on 2016's This Ain't No Cowtown compilation put out by the Denver institution "ZetaKaye House". All proceeds go to charity for a little orphaned girl of a beloved bartender here in Denver. Buy it here! https://thisaintnocowtown.bandcamp.com/album/this-ainno-cowtown-a-colorado-comp-vol-7 The band recorded their last album with Calvin Johnson (of K Records and Beat Happening), it was mixed by Calvin's assistant engineer Pual Krogh (of Oh Blue Minium), and was also mastered by Jack Endino and even did finger snaps for Yr Scene! All set during a trip to in Olympia, Washington USA March 2015. The new album is now available for download and streaming on Spotify (over 200,000 streams) and almost every other digital media outlet. The album goes by the title of "Tall People Have No Feelings" This can also be bought through out bandcamp The band released a limited edition lathe on November 8th through Meep Records. 25 were made and we sold out of them for like $25 a piece. The Vanilla Milkshakes were nominated for best post punk band by the Denver Westword and played the accompanying show to glowing reviews in 2015. The Vanilla Milkshakes participated in 2015's Denver Post Underground Showcase. The Vanilla Milkshakes are a grouping of three studly nearly middle aged men who sing and play instruments. Sometimes they do it in tune and a melody is born. Something like that. Reproductive health was never this biographer's strong suit. Singer / guitarist David McGhee was born in Florida and lived in the south eastern regions of the US until he was eighteen when a family emergency brought him to Denver, CO. He remembers the first thing he saw when he got into town was a huge gay phone sex hotline billboard. This was miles away from the Bible belt of Georgia and Alabama. Here he could start seeking his identity. He started playing guitar and singing after seeing the music video for The Offspring's “The Kids Are Alright.” He formed a few bands that focused on his music that sort of stagnated in-between inconsistent gigging and heroin abuse and quickly faded from existence. After seven years struggling with nearly daily suicidal thoughts and urges, severe depression, homelessness, the law and heroin abuse until he was about twenty six and was diagnosed with Aspergers. It was then that everything began to make sense. With therapy based around logic that autistic people can grasp he has made leaps and bounds and the guy who once tried to kill himself over 20 times now can't get enough of life. “It's trippy to be alive...” David says now “you could have been born a gnat and only have existed for only a few days and then gone forever. Never another chance.” After meeting boyfriend / drummer and vocalist Frank Registrato (jam scene favorite Bonobos Convergence / southern soul Universal Recording act St. Francis) on an online dating site in late 2013 and basically saved him from a life of bed bugs, violence and drug abuse. David moved in with and is now being cared for by his percussionist friend. With his life in steady order it was just a thing of getting back into music. The opportunity came when Frank's other band's guitar player (of local Denver reggae band Highline) JanKarl Hayes said sure. Why not? Let's all form a band! So he hopped on bass and it turned out the dude could sing really freaking well. With all three singing there are some awesome harmony opportunities. The Vanilla Milkshakes are not about perfection. Even the sourest note can be refreshing if it adds life to the song. The band's debut album “How to Ruin Friendships and Influence Douche Bags” was recorded in an astonishing 17 hours (13 less than Nirvana's debut) at Denver's own Uneven Studio by Bryan Feuchtinger. Since becoming a band the response has been just so awesome. They are truly the pictures of gratitude and can't believe things are going so well. After a lifetime of suffering, David McGhee finally has a life to be proud of. They are a great all American band and a great example of unpretentious music for pretentious people. We are a high energy punk / grunge band who will, as per contract, rock off your socks. Not just your regular ones. We'll blow your thick comfy socks off!